“pseudery”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pseudery

释义

pseudery colloq.|ˈsjuːdərɪ|
[f. pseud a. (n.) + -ery.]
An affected or pompous manner of expression, usu. with intellectual pretensions; an example of this.
1972Guardian 24 Feb. 10/3 There's nothing like an overt piece of pseudery to make one feel all lilywhite.1975Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 6/2 In another paper, a psychiatrist solemnly reported his finding that ‘in general fat people do not go to university’... These farragoes of improbable pseudery..tend to be prefaced by an enormously portentous address.1976Broadcast 12 Jan. 9/3 Capital's Sunday pseudery gets the boot.1978Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 12/6 Best of all is Mr Ward's pithy dismissal of the sort of supernatural pseudery that has enthralled the credulous since the beginning of time.

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